Re: Mexican markings and chronological chaos

In message <1138663881.354316.294310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Inez
<savagemouse123@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
>Frank Sullivan wrote:
>> Grendel wrote:
>> > by Dr. David Menton, AiG-USA
>> >
>> > January 30, 2006
>> >
>> > Dr. Sylvia Gonzales of John Moores University in Liverpool, England
>> > reported in 2005 about the discovery of 269 footprints preserved in
>> > volcanic ash in the Valsequillo region of central Mexico. Approximately
>> > 60% of the prints were identified as human, with 36% of these classified
>> > as children's because of their size. The remaining prints included dogs,
>> > cats and animals with cloven feet (possibly deer, camels or cattle).
>> > The footprints were made during volcanic eruptions and a massive flood
>> >
>> > Apparently, the footprints were made shortly after the deposition of the
>> > volcanic ash and were preserved as trace fossils by the fast deposition
>> > of fine-grained, water-deposited sediment. The volcanic ash and many
>> > layers of overlying water deposited sediment then quickly hardened,
>> > preserving the footprints in exquisite detail. No surprise for biblical
>> > creationists so far.
>> >
>> > The researchers were able to classify many of these footprints as human
>> > because they demonstrated several characteristics unique to man, including:
>> >
>> > * pedal arches, where foot bones form two perpendicular arches that
>> > normally meet the ground only at the heel and ball of the foot.
>> > * toe impressions, where visible, showed a non-divergent big toe
>> > about twice the size as its adjacent toe
>> > * deep heel and ball impressions, encircled by the typical "figure
>> > of eight" contours
>> > * several examples of footprints in a left-right sequence showing
>> > the distinctive human stride pattern
>> >
>> > rest here
>> > http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0130mexican_footprints.asp
>> >
>> > Lessons from Laetoli?
>> >
>> > It is fascinating to contrast the Mexican footprints in volcanic ash
>> > with the famous Laetoli (Tanzania) footprints in volcanic ash discovered
>> > by Mary Leaky in 1975. Like the Mexican footprints, both the shape of
>> > the Laetoli footprints and their distinctive left-right stride pattern
>> > are identical to that of modern man, yet these prints were dated by
>> > radiometric methods to be 3.5 million years old!
>> >
>> > Since evolutionists are dead certain that there were no humans around
>> > 3.5 million years ago, how did they deal with the Laetoli footprints?
>> > Rather than conclude that they were just "markings," these footprints
>> > were declared to have been made by an ape-like creature that had feet
>> > identical to modern man and who walked in precisely the same way as
>> > modern man. Most evolutionists believe that the extinct ape
>> > Australopithecus afarensis (commonly known as "Lucy") made these
>> > footprints even though there is compelling evidence that apes of this
>> > type were long-armed knuckle walkers with heavily muscled apelike feet
>> > similar to that of a pygmy chimp (J. Stern & R. Sussman, Am. J. Phys.
>> > Anthropology 60:279-212, 1983).
>>
>> Lucy in Mexico? Which evolutionists are they referring to?
>
>My googling has led me to the belief that the mexican footprints are
>more like 40,000 years old.
>
>http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/documents/pe-aut05/footprints.pdf
>
>I do not understand what their relevance is to this article.
>

AIG are trumpeting an anomalous date which makes them much older. My
guess would be that the ash contains a mixture of old and fresh volcanic
material.
--
alias Ernest Major


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